Butterfly Observations

E.g., Thursday, April 18, 2024
E.g., Thursday, April 18, 2024
E.g., Thursday, April 18, 2024
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Date and Time Latitude Longitude Speciessort ascending Type Number Observed Flight Direction (Degrees) Wind Direction (Degrees) Wind Speed Observed By Description/Notes
2005-11-28 12:00:00 33.665 -117.854 West coast lady 0 archive No description. More...
2007-04-13 12:00:00 37.936 -122.26 West coast lady 1 archive Observer: B. Shepard More...
2006-11-19 12:00:00 34.457 -119.71 West coast lady 3 archive Observer: M. Diederich. More...
2008-04-16 12:00:00 37.534 -108.717 West coast lady First butterfly of the season 1 archive Here's my next mis-identified butterfly - I thought it was a painted lady, but now realize it's a west coast lady. I photographed it the same day the Admiral showed up. More...
2015-01-08 20:45:00 36.438994 -115.35865999999999 West coast lady Presence of butterfly in your area 1 0 mariposa Wings open, see other photo for underside of wings. Desert National Wildlife Refuge, Clark County, Nevada. Location precision: not recorded. Observed by lonnyholmes, Vanessa Migration Project page, iNaturalist. http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/1167892 More...
2010-10-08 05:00:00 33.0087364 -117.27275529999997 West coast lady Presence of butterfly in your area 1 0 mariposa San Elijo Lagoon, San Diego County, California. Location precision: within a 1.24 km radius. Observed by megnd, Vanessa Migration Project page, iNaturalist. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/19662325 More...
2017-10-04 16:45:00 42.203833239518 -122.70023041957 West coast lady Presence of butterfly in your area 1 AdmiralsandLadies This West Coast Lady was nectaring on a Verbena bonarensis in a maintained, (periodically cut back) butterfly garden bed. More...
2011-10-11 21:34:00 44.072817957327 -103.23777436797 West coast lady Presence of butterfly in your area 1 prb A photographic record that can be found on Bugguide More...
2017-08-03 17:49:00 36.27940288 -115.67152099999998 West coast lady Presence of butterfly in your area 1 0 mariposa Mt. Charleston, Nevada 89124, USA. Observation by lonnyholmes, Vanessa Migration Project page, iNaturalist. Location precision: 11m. Photo: https://static.inaturalist.org/photos/9576090/medium.jpeg?1502048824 More...
2017-04-18 23:28:00 37.67845703 -122.4225576 West coast lady Presence of butterfly in your area 1 0 mariposa San Mateo County, California. Location precision: 8m radius. Observation by kestrel, Vanessa Migration Project page, iNaturalist. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/5845819 More...
2016-07-23 05:00:00 37.957592 -119.11994300000003 West coast lady Presence of butterfly in your area 1 0 mariposa Lee Vining Motel, Lee Vining, California. Location precision: within a 3.78 km radius. I didn't get the motel room, but I saw an old San Francisco buddy against the wall... Amazing day.... Observed by robberfly, Vanessa Migration Project page, iNaturalist. More...
2016-08-24 17:20:00 42.203630643291 -122.70063399765 West coast lady Presence of butterfly in your area 1 AdmiralsandLadies resting on verbena More...
2015-03-28 22:06:00 33.764432544325 -118.03452477946 West coast lady 1 Bud Foshee No description. More...
2017-06-10 18:46:00 37.7673345 -122.48167990000002 West coast lady Presence of butterfly in your area 1 0 mariposa Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, CA, USA. Location precision: 59m radius. Observation by kestrel, Vanessa Migration Project page, iNaturalist. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/6578315 More...
2016-05-15 19:23:00 33.84781157 -118.35395010000002 West coast lady Presence of butterfly in your area 1 0 mariposa On Lantana. Los Angeles County, California. Location precision: within a 918m radius (and coordinates obscured). Observed by quantron, Vanessa Migration Project page, iNaturalist. http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/3182581 More...
2015-06-21 00:46:00 37.80633833 -122.42821329999998 West coast lady Presence of butterfly in your area 1 0 mariposa Golden Gate Natl. Rec. Area - San Francisco, San Francisco County, Golden Gate National Recreation Area, California. Observed by rebeccafay, Vanessa Migration Project page, iNaturalist. http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/1651859 More...
2023-12-21 19:30:00 38.33330361189611 -123.04857876206579 West coast lady Presence of butterfly in your area 1 0 Lisahug nectaring on German Ivy. have photo, submitted to BAMONA. saw more "ladies" in flight during day but couldn't ID them to spceis. More...
2020-07-10 19:30:00 36.57914380937464 -118.29254150390625 West coast lady Migrating individual(s) 10000 270.0 270.0 4 robtsp Thousands of west coast ladies moving from the Owens Valley across the main 14,000 foot plus Sierra Crest to the west. Were not observed at lower elevations or on lower peaks such as Mt Chamberlin or Hitchcock Peak on the same day at all. More...
2019-12-02 06:00:00 31.5395378 -110.7561963 West coast lady First butterfly of the season 1 0 mariposa Patagonia, Arizona. Location precision: estimated within a 1.5 km radius. Observed by Fred Heath, DesertLeps Newsgroup. "There are still butterflies out there. Although it is December, today Mary Klinkel and I managed to find the 27 species listed below. More...
2005-04-01 13:00:00 37.4925 -120.8481 West coast lady Migrating individual(s) 12000 315.0 337.5 10 archive Type of sighting: Migrating groups. Flight direction: North, West, and Northwest. On 04/01/2005 observed approximately 40 to 60 individuals per minute from 1300 through 1700. On 04/02/2005 observed approximately 80 to 120 individuals per minute from 1530 through 1700. More...
2003-02-24 12:00:00 33.29 -111.1 West coast lady First butterfly of the season 1 archive No description. More...
2003-08-30 17:30:00 33.741 -118.41 West coast lady 0 archive This is just a casual observation that I pulled out of my birding journal upon seeing the Science News article this week. Butterflies were definitely alighting for long enough for me to get a good look at them (not terribly consistent with migratory behav), but that's all I can tell you. More...
2001-03-05 12:00:00 41.059 -124.143 West coast lady 1 archive Observers: J., P. and V. Springer. More...
2005-03-15 13:30:00 32.5456 -117.0835 West coast lady Migrating individual(s) 400 0.0 270.0 archive Flight direction, due North, hundreds of butterflies observed between 1.30 and 4:00 p.m. Pacific Standard Time (none earlier in the day, when strong Santa Ana winds were blowing). Mira Mesa CA 92126, San Diego County. More...
2008-05-03 12:00:00 37.30299 -121.95635 West coast lady 1 archive This individual was hanging about our garden.... The specimen was kind of beat up looking, with the tip of its right wing completely missing (http://flickr.com/photos/73344655@N00/2462370963/). More...
2005-11-04 12:00:00 33.8881 -117.8851 West coast lady 0 archive No description. More...
2006-03-19 12:00:00 33.67 -117.85 West coast lady 0 archive No description. More...
2007-03-03 12:00:00 37.697 -122.445 West coast lady 2 archive San Mateo County. Observers: J. Hall and D. Edwards. More...
2015-01-08 20:45:00 36.438985 -115.358676 West coast lady Presence of butterfly in your area 1 0 mariposa Beautiful butterfly flirting around low shrubs. No currently blooming flowers. Desert National Wildlife Refuge, Clark County, Nevada. Location precision: not recorded. Observed by lonnyholmes, Vanessa Migration Project page, iNaturalist. http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/1167890 More...
2017-04-18 23:28:00 37.67832167 -122.42261329999997 West coast lady Presence of butterfly in your area 1 0 mariposa San Bruno Mountain State & County Park, Brisbane, California. Location precision: not recorded. Observation by rebeccafay, Vanessa Migration Project page, iNaturalist. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/5843462 More...
2017-05-02 17:30:00 33.765794 -118.037436 West coast lady Presence of butterfly in your area 1 Bud Foshee No description. More...
2016-04-16 17:27:00 37.72002833 -122.42528670000002 West coast lady Presence of butterfly in your area 1 0 mariposa Luther Burbank Junior High School, San Francisco, California. Location precision: not recorded. Observed by rebeccafay, Vanessa Migration Project page, iNaturalist. http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/2953997 More...
2016-04-24 19:57:00 37.80605 -122.42858000000001 West coast lady Presence of butterfly in your area 1 0 mariposa Fort Mason, San Francisco, California. Location precision: not recorded. Observed by rebeccafay, Vanessa Migration Project page, iNaturalist. http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/3035361 More...
2014-11-08 19:37:00 37.73734444 -122.37493890000002 West coast lady Presence of butterfly in your area 1 0 mariposa San Francisco, California. Location precision: not recorded. Observed by kestrel, Vanessa Migration Project page, iNaturalist. http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/1062823 More...
2015-11-01 20:02:00 37.80465333 -122.43177830000002 West coast lady Presence of butterfly in your area 1 0 mariposa San Francisco County, Golden Gate National Recreation Area, California. Location precision: not recorded. Observed by rebeccafay, Vanessa Migration Project page, iNaturalist. http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/2339667 More...
2017-08-01 21:00:00 35.515955476889 -105.92301908466 West coast lady Migrating individual(s) 500 225.0 6 aaronsf Hundreds of West Coast Ladies on our Russian sage, which is blooming now. They were here for 3 days, now gone. We are in our annual summer monsoon season, so hot during the day, then thunderstorms in the late afternoon-evening bringing temperatures down 25 degrees. More...
2015-06-03 00:58:00 37.79239167 -122.42706329999999 West coast lady Presence of butterfly in your area 1 0 mariposa A little ragged. Lafayette Park, San Francisco, California. Location precision: not recorded. Observed by rebeccafay, Vanessa Migration Project page, iNaturalist. http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/1581487 More...
2016-05-14 17:54:00 37.80585 -122.42874999999998 West coast lady Presence of butterfly in your area 1 0 mariposa Fort Mason, San Francisco, California. Location precision: not recorded. Observed by rebeccafay, Vanessa Migration Project page, iNaturalist. http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/3280373 More...
2017-06-23 19:04:00 37.50461446 -122.50065919999997 West coast lady Presence of butterfly in your area 1 0 mariposa El Granada, California, USA. Location precision: 31m radius. Observation by kestrel, Vanessa Migration Project page, iNaturalist. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/6771523 More...
2019-03-13 22:00:00 39.25615553080485 -121.21631613607497 West coast lady First butterfly of the season 2 0 David Adams I saw two Painted Ladies (probably West Coast Ladies) doing their "mating flight dance" this last Wednesday in my back yard here on 5 acres in Penn Valley, California (foothills in western Nevada County northeast of Sacramento). More...
2005-11-07 12:00:00 31.9471 -111.6159 West coast lady 2 archive Observer: E. Halbedel. Elevation 3000-6000 ft along SR 386, Kitt Peak, AZ. More...
2003-11-01 12:00:00 37.45 -122.38 West coast lady 7 archive Observers: J. Hall and D. Edwards. More...
2005-03-30 09:00:00 34.7317 -120.0869 West coast lady Migrating individual(s) 2000 315.0 315.0 13 archive Migrating individuals (from around 0900 until the present - 1421). Flight Direction: Roughly NW, thousands of butterflies. Midland School, Los Olivos CA USA. Zip code 93441, Santa Barbara County. Latitude: 34.43'54"N. Longitude: 120.05'13"W. More...
2005-04-01 15:00:00 37.9341 -122.0272 West coast lady Migrating individual(s) 3000 0.0 archive Contra Costa County, Ygnacio Valley High School, April 1, 2005. From approximately 3:00 to 5:00 p.m. Numbers: easily in the thousands of butterflies. Looking out over the parking lot at my school and later driving next to open lots, there were hundreds of individuals. More...
2005-11-20 12:00:00 42.6877 -114.8662 West coast lady 3 archive Observer: K. Fothergill More...
2005-10-25 12:00:00 33.78 -117.763 West coast lady 0 archive No description. More...
2014-03-14 17:00:00 32.866396 -116.622452 West coast lady Migrating individual(s), Presence of butterfly in your area 5 CindyB For the last few days, we have seen many Painted Ladies (or West Coast Ladies) passing through. A couple of days ago, I was seeing them once every minute or two, sometimes more. More...
2006-01-17 12:00:00 33.66 -117.85 West coast lady 0 archive No description. More...
2007-02-17 12:00:00 37.45 -122.38 West coast lady 1 archive San Mateo County. Observers: J. Hall and D. Edwards. More...
2015-03-23 19:09:00 37.76910833 -122.46566669999999 West coast lady Presence of butterfly in your area 1 0 mariposa Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, California. Location precision: not recorded. Observed by rebeccafay, Vanessa Migration Project page, iNaturalist. http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/1336555 More...

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